CURRICULUM VITAE

Mr. Naj Qureshi

• Mobile +966 (0) 536 311 696 • Email qureshi.naj@gmail.com
Nationality: British

Summary:

I am an accomplished IT Industry leader in search of a new role. My experience is

extensive ranging through technology strategy and development managed IT Teams
of 5 and 400 IT professionals, project and programme management, business
change and transformation. I enjoy building innovative systems and building expert
teams and have a reputation for excellence, an eye for detail and delivering
impressive results.

Career Profile

As an expert project manager with technical architect and Business Information Technology background, my
success is due to my ability to work with the stakeholders both senior management and subject matter experts
to build a holistic view of the organisation's strategy, processes, information, and information technology
assets.

High levels of technical competence and strong communication and people management skills. Recognised
for being able to take knowledge and ensure that the business and IT are aligned. Good track record
techniques to link the business mission, strategy, and processes of an organisation to its IT strategy, and
document this using multiple architectural models or views that show how the current and future needs of an
organisation will be met in an efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.

• Experienced Architect – For the last 15+ years I have worked in senior IT roles reporting to CIOs,
COOs, CEOs and MDs. An experienced IT Strategist and Manager, dedicated to the facilitation of process
improvement within the corporate industry. Excellent leadership and team building skills, an encouraging
and motivating team player, with negotiation, presentation, project management, financial management
and business development experience.

• Strategic view of Global Operations – My goal is to always promote systems of shared infrastructure
and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate
functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.

• Ability to Present/Mentor/Train – As a consultant one of my most enjoyable duties has been providing
knowledge transfer and real value add in my projects through presentations, mentoring management and
training employees. Developing a business practice, building a support organisation, establishing a Centre
of Excellence or simply brainstorming new ideas.

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Mr. Naj Qureshi
• Mobile +966 (0) 536 311 696 • Email qureshi.naj@gmail.com
Nationality: British

Please view attached Management & Technical skills matrix:

Portfolio.xls

Employment Summary:

Location/industr Long term Contracts

Name of Company Job Description
y Start End
Enterprise Objectives
www.eo-ksa.com Saudi Arabia – Jan 2011 On-going Technical Architect
HRDF Public Sector Project Management
www.hrdf.org.sa
Ferrovial – BAA
http://www.ferrovial.com/en Europe wide - Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Senior Technical
British Airport Authority Aerospace Project Management
www.baa.com
NHS
National Health Services UK - Health Feb 2009 Jan 2010 Solution &
www.nhs.uk Services
Technical specialist
AJG
Arthur J Gallagher EMEA - Insurance April 2006 Jan 2009 CTO
www.ajg.com Enterprise Architect
AFM (SANTANDER)
Abbey Financial Markets Europe wide – July 2002 Jan 2004 Project Manager /
www.santander.co.uk Financial Markets Technical Architect
MOE
Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia – March 2000 Jun 2002 Technical Architect
http://www.tvtc.gov.sa Public Sector

Short term Contracts

Location/industr
Name of Company Various clients engagements Job Description
y
Start End
LTSB
Lloyds TSB UK – Banking
www.lloydstsb.com Project Manager
April 2004 March 2006 Technical Architect
BARCLAYS PLC Europe wide – Solutions specialist
www.barclays.co.uk Banking

BRITISH TELECOM Project Manager

www.bt.co.uk UK – IT Services December 1997 January 2000 Technical Architect
Technical account manager Solutions specialist
for more than 5 corporate
clients.

Computa Centre
www.computacenter.com
Technical account manager
for more than 10 corporate
clients.
Europe wide – IT May 1995 Nov 1997 Project Manager
Services Technical Architect
Solutions specialist

Various contracts undertaken across the Globe as: Project manager, Technical Architect & Consultant
Year: 1995 to 2010.

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Mr. Naj Qureshi
• Mobile +966 (0) 536 311 696 • Email qureshi.naj@gmail.com
Nationality: British

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

HRDF Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

Role: Technical Architect Project Management

Project: Enterprise VMware farm design and implementation

Ferrovial - BAA Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

Role: Senior Technical Project Management
100,000 Global users

Senior Technical Project Management, I am providing expertise for a global transformation strategy
delivering a multimillion end user infrastructure and application delivery Architecture. I was brought in
specifically to coordinate delivery for 10,000 users based in UK.

Leveraging experience and a wide range of technical knowledge I was able to revitalise a multimillion
project, effectively bringing about the recovery of a project phase from a full year behind schedule.
In-depth transformation programme management experience for a large, complex, global organisation
Consumer-centric Airports management industry focus on passenger relationship building and stakeholders

As a specialist consultant and senior management project co-ordination team supporting 10,000 users
nationwide. Instrumental in bringing about the recovery of a 1 year overdue project phase
Responsible for bringing technical coordination and alignment of several independent work streams
Streamline Governance and development of client side service, deployment process and procedures

£200 million IT technology upgrade investment across the entire state, offering state of the Art technology
with more flexibility and an improved IT experience first in UK.

Following is the list of projects in completion:

• Terminal hosts upgrade from WYSE to Desktops & Laptops (20,000 units)
• Desktops refresh
Windows 7 + Office 2010 rollout (VDI and Windows 2008 R2 RDP)
• Application rationalisation
Consolidation and rationalise over 1000 applications
• Data centre consolidation program
Strategic alignment with Ferrovial global Data Centres
• SAN Implementation
Design and delivery EMC VMAX-4 with fully functional SRDF in DR
• ESX VMware farm expansion
Leverage and extend VMware vSphere 4 with SRM 4 environment
• NEMO – New Enterprise Mail Option
Scope, design and migration of Email solution from Lotus notes to Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Citrix Xen farm upgrade and expansion
Leverage and extend Citrix Xen App & Server environment
Xen App 4.5 to 6 on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit platform
• Enterprise systems management
Scope, design and implementation of SCCM 2007 replacing Altiris environment
• Management services upgrade
Active directory upgrade from 2003 to 2008 R2
Certificate server upgrade from 2003 to 2008 R2
Identity and access management solution
External Authentication review (Public facing)
Web content filtering
• Technology handover (Pipelined)
Handover IS infrastructure and projects to outsource IT support company.

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Mr. Naj Qureshi
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Nationality: British

NHS, London Feb 2009– Jan 2010

Role: Solution & Technical Consultant

Management and technical consultant responsible for provision of top-level IT/Business consultancy,
specialising in consulting business that are embarking on large scale transformation programs and advising on
a portfolio of clients (Primary Care Trusts) on Data warehousing and Business intelligence software products,
virtualisation delivery, desktop migration transformation and application delivery strategies.

Provisioning of on-going support, co-ordination and planning for vendor support and sub-contractor activities
Conducted in-depth feasibility studies for multi-site, multi-location implementations of new IT / technology
reported directly to the Managing Director, advising on program and service delivery for deployments

• Chairing project meetings from technical to management aspects, providing updates with PM to IS
board, ability to persuade, influence and motivate team.

• Processed RFI/RFP for Storage and backup requirements, contributed to PID and project funding
liaised with various vendors and suppliers arranged a project mandate and delivered a strategic Data
hosting environment as NETAPP & HP EVA SAN solutions.

• Liaised and engaged with a collaborative communication style with IT team of PM’s. BA’s, App
Dev and BAU, articulated technical concepts to all levels for smooth project delivery.

• Data warehousing Solution (400 TB)

Implementation of NetApp FAS 3170 and 3140 series & HP EVA 8140 for Production/Client facing
environment catering applications as follows: SQL hosted Data warehousing, BI, ETL and Web data
publishing over Sharepoint.

• SQL database servers consolidation

• Security
Liaised with various CSL business units and successfully migrated 15 CSL hosted public facing
websites to SSL encryption and Single sign on.

• Delivered DR/BCP platform for the production environment

• Delivered Desktops and Application rationalisation migration

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Mr. Naj Qureshi
• Mobile +966 (0) 536 311 696 • Email qureshi.naj@gmail.com
Nationality: British

AJG (Arthur J Gallagher) Apr 2005 – Jan 2009

Role: Chief Technical Officer
Member of the executive leadership team of divisional CIOs, COOs and Senior IT leaders with overall
responsibility for IT architecture and governance, reporting to the Global CIO and a of an enterprise-wide
change portfolio in excess of £100M.

As a CTO at AJG, I was responsible to the Executive Board for IT, Service and business Strategy, Support of
10 satellite branches across EMEA delivered from 2 offices within the UK. A key success of the role was the
systematic improvement of systems and services to support 100% growth year on year for 3 years period,
delivered by the radical improvement of the performance and reliability of IT systems. This involved
managing several major projects and teams simultaneously to support business change objectives, including
the design and implementation of a in-house CRM, accounting, sales/purchase and brokerage application. The
implementation of which allowed the entire business to collaborate on a unified package thus empowering
each business unit to operate at maximum efficiency.

Full OPEX and CAPEX budgetary control responsibilities, including working with vendors and suppliers
Delivered a new strategic IT roadmap, remodelled and transitioned IT support services across the board,
global access centralised data centre for BCP, tracking changing business requirements and aligning IT
services.

Played pivotal role in definition and successful adoption of new strategic IT platform based on SOA, BPM
and Portal technology platforms, despite some resistance. Influenced senior stakeholders to ensure the right
decisions were made around presentation tier technologies and tools. Pro-actively raised opportunities to
implement the IT strategy and roadmaps in order to reduce TCO, and also deliver business benefit.

Always on the fore front client-facing, focused on provision of multi-tier infrastructure, business critical
applications hosting and support availability of 24/7/365.
Responsibilities:
• Led strategic planning sessions to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritising development
initiatives.
• Lead the way to align strategic roadmaps for applications, global data centre, network, storage and
client/server infrastructure platforms
• Translate strategic Roadmaps into actionable global programmes
• Lead in Global Governance Initiative for Architecture Standards work stream
• Member of the Architecture Design Authority Panel across Business Units
• Identified technology trends and evolved social behaviour that may support or impede the success of
the business.
• Participated as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of
direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed
• Align Global Programmes and Architectural Roadmaps with Programme Management Office (PMO)
to the business operating model
• Well-versed in programme management methodology such as PMP/Prince2
• Vendor & Supplier selection for services and new business applications, including writing
RFIs/RFPs.
• Demonstrated thought leadership validated by Gartner, IDC, Forrestor and industry peers
• Prioritise team activities, own team plan and manage allocation of resources and time
• Ability to integrate and work across the business, IT and strategic partners
• Steer Global architecture through principles, standards and processes
• Implement effective Architecture governance through structured review process based on industry
best practices
• Successfully approved/amended technical solution designs at low level and high level to underwrite
they are fit for deployment into production.
• Presentation to senior management to maintain visibility and understanding of the IT strategy

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Technical Achievements:
• Re-Engineered Financial System on Cognos 8 for BI and Planning
• Implemented shared expense system on Concur and American Express
• Implemented central HR system on JD Edwards
• Developed and implemented an EMEA shared service strategy for internet applications to reduce
time to sell products on the London market more effectively.
• Improved customer relationship management process by delivering a central CRM Platform for all
brokers and improved extranet services for trading online.
• Improved document checking by introducing Wordsensa and Thunderhead to ensure documents were
automatically handled.
• Designed strategic staging environment for Applications: Production, UAT and development
leveraging SAN, Networks and Virtual environment

Summary of Projects:

SAN & Backup technology Implementations:

• HP SAN Solutions: EVA 4100, EVA 4400, EVA 6400 end to end FC Design & Implementation
• DELL Equalogics: PS5000 ISCSI Design & Implementation hosted web applications
• HP NAS servers and Direct Attached storage systems, purpose used for snapshots
• Replaced EMC legato backup environment with CommVault Simpana 8 with data deduplication

Network Environment:
• Multi vendor legacy Network platform was replaced with complete CISCO Networks
• A structured secure VLAN designed and implemented using CISCO 6 Series & 3750E as core,
3560E as aggregators and 3560 POE for edge switching
• Management and control of Firewall changes with Infosec Team.
• Enhanced MPLS network performance with CISCO WAN accelerators

Virtual Environments:
• VMware ESX Farm Implementation, upgrade and support in production. Versions: 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0i
• Citrix XenApp 5 Farm Implementation and support for Application virtualization
• Added new Citrix CAG servers to leverage new business acquisitions

“Above mentioned projects were implemented as a platform prior to the initiation of projects listed below:”

Data-Application-Database Consolidation projects involved:

• Email solution upgrade from Exchange 2000 & 2003 to Exchange 2007 (1500 Users) complete
implementation from storage to mail routing policies over Windows 2008 platform
• Design and Architect Active Directory Domain upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003
• Consolidation of Business Application Servers realigned to meet business needs
• Consolidated, sized and Microsoft Clustered SQL Databases and liaised successful support transition
to offshore company (Windows 2005 & 2008 Cluster for SQL 2005 & 2008)
• File Server Data Consolidation and implemented with AD DFS structure, Clustered print servers on
Windows 2003
• BCP design and implementation (Achieved 2 years of successful Audits)
• A complete backup solution revamped from Legato 7.0 to 7.5 and later replaced with CommVault
Simpana to meet the corporate backup and restore strategy

New technology and upgrades:

• Upgrade and installed SharePoint WSS 2.0 to 3.0 and MOSS 2007 implementation and support
• POC build upgrade SMS 2003 site 2 to SCCM/SCOM 2007 catering Windows 2008 and Vista
platform
• CRM 3.0 to 4.0 upgrade and database remapping
• Assisted COGNOS BI systems upgrade to new version 8
• Assisted with legacy applications IBM U2 database migration and system hardware and software
upgrade
• Assisted upgrade BEA Aqualogics UI used for internal portals
• Corporate wide standard desktop build engineering and rollout (Latest build Windows XP)

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Mr. Naj Qureshi
• Mobile +966 (0) 536 311 696 • Email qureshi.naj@gmail.com
Nationality: British

AFM - Abbey Financial Market (Santander) July 2002 – Jan 2004

Role: Project management technical lead

Responsible for providing projects control and technical lead on multiple multipound business IT projects for
a range of financial trading products, which included Business Case, Feasibility Study, and Risk/Issue
Register, Technical design, implementation, documentation with end to end support transition.
I was recognised as ‘the fount of knowledge’; I was frequently approached by other consultants to provide
support and solutions on other projects.

Strategic Infrastructure Services Programme

• Managed a programme of projects for multiple businesses and CIO's including application improvement,
Datacenter relocation, new system integration & implementation, network redesign, legacy system
improvement, outsourcing of services and business re-branding.
• Supporting multiple Project Managers in the implementation of various IT software systems including
user migrations, hardware and software upgrades
• Working within a project management development environment, with responsibility for reviewing risks
and issues and formulating management options to decisions.
• Responsible for project scheduling and monitoring of all identified tasks implemented by the technical
teams, acting as an interface with the business heads and proactively facilitating effective
communication/ information exchanges between all project stakeholders (internal and external)
• Ensuring that the activities of project meet the requirements of FSA standards and recommendations
• Planning and managing Development, UAT and Production environment ensuring effective and timely
resolution of issues.
• Contributing to the resolution of challenges, technical issues by providing technical expertise.
• Appointing Project Managers to establish a training strategy for management and staff, also co-ordinating
all user training sessions for new systems
• Liaising with contractors, marketing and senior level management with reports on on-going projects
• Managing defect management process, monitoring and reporting on test execution
• Co-ordinating and analysing management information to support Project Managers
• Providing administrative support and keeping project documents easily located within project files
• Delegating with fellow members of the Projects Office team in order to provide or request back-up
support when necessary
• Created the web strategy for AFM external clients with standards to support multi Datacenter e-
commerce hosting environment for globally supporting websites used by over a million retail customers.
• Implemented improved development techniques, formal specification, project management, user testing
and documentation.
• Leveraged experience to generate innovative ideas to optimise existing technology and improve service
levels.

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Nationality: British

Ministry of Finance Mar 2000 – Jun 2002

Role: Technical Architect lead

As part of the consulting division, I was responsible for delivering infrastructure change within the agreed
time, resource and budget constraints based upon PMP methodologies on WINTEL and UNIX platforms.

Responsible for providing a technical lead on business projects, which included Application audit trails,
technical design, technical solutions analysis, defining the architecture for the optimum client solution,
providing the total documentation and ensuring the effective implementation of the agreed solution.

Technology and Innovation Programme

• Facilitating Project Planning Workshops and Formula Calculation, plan and subsequently report on
progress within the project environment
• Establishing the durations for the various tasks necessary to complete the work with the Project Manager,
grouped into a Work Breakdown Structure and used as an input to the Project Plan
• Identified logical dependencies between tasks using an activity network diagram that enables
identification of the critical path
• Providing support, guidance and governance to Project Managers on a large scale Programme consisting
of eight IT work streams
• Effectively monitoring & facilitating communications amongst work streams and project teams
• Engaged with various Project Managers and IT Teams in driving the project for a successful delivery
• Responsible for setting up new project control processes, templates and carrying out the Configuration
Management of the Projects’ Products
• Maintaining High Level Project Milestone Plans and collating work stream Status Reports
• Assisting in the administration of their deliverables to help ensure that standards are consistently applied,
also responsible for managing the resource tracking process.
• Operating in a Centre of Excellence (PMO) as central repository for project information, processes and
procedures
• Monitor and Authorise various project logs (Change Control and Configuration Management)
• Deciphering project Risks and Issues logs and escalating to the Programme Office as necessary
• Responsible for maintaining IT Change Request log and advocating best practices and implementing
process improvement initiatives

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